#omg the movement lines 😂

[emry-stars-art]

I’ve always been curious how you do your drawings that are hand drawn and have multiple panels (like the one where Neil drapes a blanket over Andrew). Do you cut out pieces of paper to change the panel or do you edit them online or something else?

Omg I just remembered about this ask

So actually that comic is the first one I've done in this specific way! Usually my traditional stuff is literally just all on paper, everything drawn out, and if it's a minor change like an eye movement or something I can take a picture of the panel one way, erase the part that needs changing and redraw it, and take another picture

For the blanket one, I tried something a little different that didn't quite work out proportionally (which I knew going in was a very real possibility so that's on me). I drew the elements separately - Andrew and the couch is one piece, Neil behind the couch was another, Neil draping the blanket was another. They were all on separate pieces of paper for me to take pictures of

Then I went in on procreate and erased the background/any parts of the piece that I didn't need on each of them, and then layered them on top of each other/organized them. (Except for the first panel of Andrew with the blanket on him, which blanket I drew digitally right on top of him and you can tell by looking closely at the line quality/lack of erased undersketch lines)

I don't know if I'll try that method again in the future, but it was definitely nice not to have to draw Andrew and the couch every single time for those first four panels 😂

[hello-nichya-here]

lmao you're so angry that you know shit about radfem so made an entire fucking essay of actually... PROVING IT??? of made up facts to make radfems look like a boogieman liberals wants us to make 😂 it's so pathetic omg, ok step by step:

1)lol what? radfem is about WOMEN, woman's safety, it doesn't matter who exactly was the abuser, what matters is to help female victim because it a movement about WOMEN. Take your head out of your ass.

2) Laetitia Ky, Artė, any south Korean radfem cuz any other type of feminisms won't work there hundreds of woc radfem here just 🗿

3) lol what? did you just imagined it yourself lol?? i'll repeat, radfem is about women well being, it doesn't matter who exactly was the abuser, what matters is to help female victim because it a movement about WOMEN not victims of abuse. and it just so happened that men commit about 90% of abuse, that's a statistic you can google go educate yourself

4) didn't libfem tumbler came out with this bs? it's the same labeling woman, putting them into unneeded categories that liberals like so much? i'll repeat, radfem is about women well being which means no separation from one another and no judgment especially about your sexuality. Take your head out of your ass.

5) ohhh yess we all just haaaaate ace.... no lmao. no one gives a shit, maximum is questioning the label itself cuz it's pointless, your asexuality is a low libido. no radfem gives a shit.

6) lmao where do you take this shit? 😂 can i take your narco dealer's number? also, oh what's this? several public researches that proves that TIMs exhibit a male-type pattern of criminality? rapes in prisons where trans women were sent? hundreds of assaults in public restrooms??? wow shocking!

7) you don't need to be saved, some therapy, cuz i doubt you'd like to be beaten/choked/ect in any other circumstances. another question does it not bother you that your partner would enjoy "playfully" hurting you? in short it's called coping mechanism to deal with abuse and trauma, go educate yourself

8) yeah for some reason we don't support child trafficking, rapes, murders, pedophilia and etc. that comes with prostitution. go watch interviews with those who escaped prostitution, they all hated it. they were abused and traumatized. Take your head out of your ass.

9) hun, we don't hate you we pity you at worst. it's not our job too look out for men, it FEMENISM it's about WOMEN and only WOMEN. adult human female, comprende?

and listen i may not be the best person in the world but at least i'm not spending my life chronically online writing incest fics ;) one again, pull your head out of your ass and educate yourself, here's some masterpost https://manlarp.tumblr.com/post/667874370724691968/accessible-radfem-ideology-masterpost bye bye :)

Saying "WE ARE ALL ABOUT WOMEN" doesn't change shit. You once again proved my point by saying that my experience with radfems spewing out abuse apologism towards me when they thought I was being abused didn't happen based on nothing but your favorite go-to defensive line. YOU didn't see it thefore it didn't happen to ME. Way to prove you guys don't try to silence women who disagree with you by trying to exactly that.

And yeah, I know there are woc of who are TERFs. There are also women who are even more misonygistic than some men. There are plenty of slavic countries where nazism is still a big thing even though Hitler hated slavs. Self-hating idiots have existed and always will. Doesn't change the fact that you fuckers are racist all the damn time.

"We don't care if people are ace, we don't devide women" literally a quick search will show that you guys do. A bunch of the anti-ace discourse was literally INVENTED by radfems, something they are very proud to admit. And plenty of queer radfems are biphobic all the fucking time, something I, a bisexual woman, have to put up with every single time one of your friends comes bother me. Go lie to someone else, bitch.

"Those who ESCAPED prostitution hated it" Yes, people tend to hate things they were forced to do. Doesn't change the fact that you guys are more concerned with making women who WANT to do sex work be labelled as criminals than with punishing human traffickers.

And once again, we have you being all condescending. "Let ME tell you what YOU want. Let ME tell you what makes YOU feel safe." And gotta love how you heard me say I'm kinky and immediately assumed I'm submissive, instead of a dominant or a switch. And then of course you have to go for the slut shaming of "You write kinky porn therefore you are automatically wrong."

"FEMINISM IS ONLY ABOUT WOMEN" Which is why it is dying. If your movement cannot accept that the world isn't black and white, and that societal hierarchies are much more complicated than just Group A is always the all powerful one and Group B always gets screwed over, it WILL fail because it will be ignoring real problems for the sake of keeping a narrative alive. Which is why nobody fucking likes radfems, and the world would be better off if you idiots were gone.

I don't need to read your bullshit, because you idiots will scream your nonsense at me all the time, like you just did. And not once have any of you ever said a single word that was worth listening.

Don't bother sending me more asks, I'll just block you. Go larp with your fellow radfems about every single woman who has a problem with you guys is "brainwashed by the patriarchy" because there's no way you guys could EVER be the problem and that your "activism" is as shallow, stupid and fake as you are.

[raine-kai]

OPLA Japanese Dub Ep 1 Thoughts

Due to life interruptions I never did the full watch through in the Japanese dub that I'd intended to do, so I am starting it now.

I'm actually pretty happy that I had about a month between watching it in English and watching the Japanese dub, because it's given me time to get used to the way I see the characters in English before throwing in the wrench that is their anime personas evoked by the voice actors.

Hoo boy do I have thoughts.

Gold Roger's introductory lines are a little weaker, a little more awkward in the dub. They strike as good a balance as one could expect between the original lines, and having to match the mouth movements and beats of the English, but it creates awkward pauses that just give it less oomf factor.

Gosh Luffy's introduction was strange. Luffy is using words that I would never imagine him to know in the manga/anime, and it was a little jarring at first.

That said, lines that are more geared towards English-language jokes like "Mutiny!" and "It's only my first day!" were edited to be comments like, "Well that didn't work" and "Oh well, it'll work out" respectively, which also grounded me a little more back to anime-Luffy.

The Luffy-Koby dialogue felt a lil more expositiony in Japanese than it felt in English to me, but not in a way that was too distracting. It is exposition, and it's hard to make that flow naturally in a dub.

One of the insults Luffy throws at Alvida was ドS, and my instinctive response was "omg Luffy, who taught you that word????"

Zoro's anime voice coming out of Mackenyu's mouth was a lil weird at first. Because Zoro also speaks slowly in English, in shots where his mouth is visible when he's talking, there's the Gold Roger issue again where his lines feel oddly paced due to having to speak slowly and match the mouth movements.

Nami's voice actress bringing her manga personality into her live action counterpart was a little weird to hear at first, because that whole joyfully conniving side of her seemed largely toned down or absent in the live action, to me. By the end of the episode I was used to it, though.

I have a feeling it's going to be so much harder to like Helmeppo with his anime actor's voice 😂

The Luffy-Zoro meeting when Zoro is tied up scene worked so well, I love this version of Luffy, though Zoro's lines still at some points felt a little oddly paced.

When Luffy tells Zoro, "I'll go high, you go low" in the Japanese dub, it comes out more like, "I'll be on top, you'll be below" with less innuendo than that denotes in English, but definitely with an implication of the power structure that Luffy will have with Zoro. It surprised me a little that Zoro wouldn't object on principle, but then again, different version of Zoro.

I'd also just like to say that as someone with a history with both the LuNa ship and the ZoroLu ship, as well as some guilt-reading of ZoroNami I've done through the years, I can't help but look at some things through shipping goggles.

The way that Nami doesn't try to betray or abandon Luffy at any point through this episode strikes me as very <3

The line "so that's where it goes!" when Zoro puts Wado Ichimonji in his mouth was changed in the dub to "OOOOO, kakkoiiiii" in a way that felt way more enthusiastic than anime Luffy ever was praising Zoro.

Nami cutting in to remind them that they have to get away was just said in a way that made me feel like she, too, sees that Luffy and Zoro are having a meet cute. (Which, frankly, is easy to headcanon—it would explain why she is so fast to call Zoro Luffy's first mate, and perhaps why she is less inclined to be suspicious of them, seeing that they are building a fast, strong connection.)

The music continues to be excellent.

The way the map gets filled in through the ending credits is lovely and I'm glad I have time to watch them through this round <3

[bitchin-witchin]

not really a flaw i guess, but i love love fanarts where childe has body hair!! specifically nomi_owo’s (twitter)! i think he’s definitely the type of dude to go unshaven for a while lmaoo

i think everyone has this headcanon but scars as well!! i wish hoyo would give him some scars because you’re telling me a warrior who was in the ABYSS came out without a mark on his body?? no way

Omg yeah body hair! Ohh I've never seen that artist thank u for sharing! Love their soft lines and the casual fuzz they give tart :3cc it definitely makes sense to think he would go unshaven for a while when he lives in the cold xD extra insulation and too much work to shave ur body when u just cover it up in layers of clothes!! (Sometimes I jokingly think he might shave for movements efficiency in battle like how swimmers shave so they have less resistance moving through water tho 😂)

So many childe art has him scarred up and yeah the amount of danger he gets in, wide spread adoption of that hc by fans for sure xD. Plus now that wriothesleys model has been released and he has scars 👀👀 we are seeing more variety. Would childe have scars if he was released mid game instead of early perhaps? Who knows...

[tiny-tigers]

✨ Oh that is a good point! They must feel so familiar but then in person you realise they are in fact strangers - that must feel quite jarring. Papa Chessum seems adorable! As do all the families tbh? I think they've been so involved in their sons careers that meeting so many people along the way & revelling in the whole experience must just be so exciting - whereas the partners of the players haven't been around for all that so probably feel more uncomfortable with it...

I always remember Chloe Madeley (James Haskell's wife) saying on his podcast that the wive's and gf's always felt so much pressure to dress up for games & to look a certain way as people would constantly look them up and down & judge them ☹️ She also said they would be always freezing at six nations games because of their 'dress to impress' outfits and that Eddie Jones understood and was incredibly sweet by getting them heated blankets to keep them warm 😭💕

Omg you climbed over Bevan?? 😂😆 [I would stay well clear of that boy after watching that calorie vid of his - jesussss 😂👀]

Guarantee the ones who looked older had faces full of filler...? 😞

Also culture shock is such a real thing omg, one of my siblings has a foreign partner and as lovely as they are, we have just never gelled? Not through lack of trying of course but yeh...culture is so interesting no?

Seen a super cool documentary about fillers it really stopped my ideas to get some ever ! Also everyone is starting to look the same just see the hairstyles as well... It is getting scary. I think it is too much efforts for something that will fade away plus when you stop cultivating what is inside yourself it is when it gets bad... I mean I may not be the prettiest but I do know for sure I can be captivating.

Papa chess always call everyone buddy or mate or something along those lines to men and women it is funny. Families are all very closed, the vP are more discreet than the stews... You can be fooled by Jeff in a crowd and not recognize him but not Sarah , he is her carbon copy it is insane and she is so pretty????? He was alone anyways. He was not seated with anyone family and wasn't Seated with freddy's friends he came with he was on his own in a seat near staircases so he could moove easily with his boot.

Completely amazed each time I see them in 3D I am never completely used to it.

Also used to be over the moon and find that he was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in 29 years of life and believedme I have seen a lot of museums. Lies Lies Lies... You know when you see in a glimpse someone true self without any barriers, his personality but it is rotten inside that it turns the person uggly instantly ?? This happened. Like a repulsive instinctive movement of being take aback.

So different than watching the Tv. I have seen tons and tons of images of Jack over the year that I can do galaxy maps out of his moles and yet... He looked smaller sweaty and vain that day. He was just a boy. Some boy. But a boy. It vacillated in front of me in a fraction of a second my brain didn't compute and was there like why am I inflicting this situation to myself. It hurts. Go.

I recall his clumsy movements, the cotton of his t-shirt , the heavy bracelet of his watch , his eyes being glazed and very wide, and his hair going greasy on his forehead, for a reason he is always warm his body always radiates like a heater. I could write chapters just to describe him.

So you have at least the end of the story and I get a closure perhaps.

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I thought he would care but maybe someone still does.

♪ I got everything I wanted

Not what you'd think

And if I'm bein' honest

It might've been a nightmare ♫

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As soon as the second half started I ran out in the stairs and even took the wrong way before noticing, I was shaking like a leaf my ancestors must have felt it.

Like I said I asked Max Malins where Jack was by showing him my drawing to him, his girlfriend, and Josie, Ben Earl's girlfriend who was very sweet was complimenting it so I was slightly reinforced I wasn't totally off in my intentions.

I tried again to run through the stairs and one of the stewards noticed me this time. Asking me a bit with disdain if I had finally found him, she said she would ask another steward close to the staff if he was there. The other one came and didn't recognize him from the drawing, I gave him his name and he told me he wasn't playing (no kidding sir... I know that) . I told them both that the players and families assured me he was there, I knew I did not have a lot of time before they would ask me to go back ASAP to my seat so I scanned for one last time the crowd and there he was. In a *SNAP* I just saw him and didn't let them finish telling me anything I just said mostly for me: THERE, SEE HE IS THERE!! TOLD YOU!! and instantly, instinctively moved forward.

To reach him I had to do some acrobatics and climb rows of seats I asked nicely to pass to someone who indeed was Bevan Rodd but I couldn't care less I had the aim to reach Jack before he could go away so I had to pass between Bevan and his family to land on the hole to hope seeing Jack, doing so I hit hard my knee to the forward row of seats.

A few steps with a muted pain in my right knee is what was separating me from my encounter with the backside of Jack in his black t-shirt finishing to discuss with people around. Lewis Ludlam was on his phone occupied on the next row to my right. I took my chances and it was after a light tap on his back that I was finally facing Jack.

He seemed surprised , glazed eyes who seemed twitching : oh it's you ! You found me !

He said : heeeyy ! I just had the drawing in front of me he laughed and he said You alright? and engulfing me in a hug, I whispered in his ear that it had been difficult to find him. I asked him if he would be ok just to take a selfie . A selfie ! Right! no problem, he was letting me to open my phone ready to take one but then Lewis said to me if you want I can take the pictures for me so I gave him my phone and Jack was abandoning me already talking to someone else. I said to Lewis I was running the fanpage of Jack a bit excusing myself for intruding and explaining why I was exactly there. He absolutely didn't cared a flying fuck but said oh alright. Jack... The selfie.. Jack ? JACK ! JVP !!!

He was so embarrassed for me that JvP was totally elsewhere.

oh yes yes ! He grabbed me close and while Lewis was taking the pictures I was asking Jack if we could have one less formal more "quirky" and he didn't understand and kept on repeating what ? uuhmWhat? laughing. and I said in my balbuting English you know doing faces pull the tongue. Quirky.! He seemed horrified and moved away so I asked him right after that why he was not following the fanpage and he started to be vague and telling me that he would never follow it and started an embarrassed because... and I asked him if it was because of the club he said no but that he wanted to keep a low profile. The amount of profiles he follows doesn't really sound low profile to me but I will not start to argue.

I think he saw my look because he instantly defended himself with reinforcement of gestures with his hands: but I go watch it tho you know!!!! And he promised he would continue to do so. He then proceeded to tell me he had to go because the match would be back on soon and it was when I tried to let him pass that my hand landed on his abs because he literally escaped, exchanged an intended look with Bevan and I followed him to his seat because I still had his drawing in hand and it couldn't end like this, it was the worst interaction we ever had.

I called him back and gave him the drawing and he said: no.

no , no-no

I said why ??? I was completely shocked to be entirely honest. Because he could have trashed it right after it I wouldn't have cared but for me, to refuse that simple piece of paper it was like crucifying me, crushing my efforts, with his simple no that he repeated in loop after, I pictured instantly all the previous giftbags I gave him in the bin. Don't you like it ? It's badly drawn? ♫*bad blood by Taylor Swift in my head*♫

No no it's not that you are talented it's really well done, you should keep it. He was a bit showing himself not having a bag and his empty pocket and then.

So disappointed, I had my ego replying to him instantly: sign it then at least!

He said ok , I asked him if he would be in Leicester on the 3rd of December because I had more pleasant gifts than a drawing to give him and he smiled nodding. While signing my drawing one woman went in the way while regaining her seat, and proceeded to completely empty on the floor the full beer cup he had left next to his seat to be empty-handed. She recognized him and was super flustered while he was SO PISSED OFF. He was giving me back the pen and drawing completely distraught and afflicted. He had enough.

I just thanked him again for the video before leaving and he said he was again very sorry that it had taken so long for him to reply ...

I remember I remember, his eyes flickering a silent but kind: I know who you are I haven't forgotten you now go you can go

I left.

I wished to cry but couldn't, like I couldn't explain to my father the bruise forming on my knee huge as a potato, or the bruise even bigger to my ego. I cried a lot after that. He kept his promises and came back on his own a lot of times on the page just the day after like an excuse but it's me seeing things. It was too late anyway.

I left my childhood and illusions in that stadium.

Life went on.

It doesn't seem like a lot because after all he didn't owe me anything but it hit hard, usually my job = me, so knowing I was doing the page in vain and that he absolutely doesn't care about anything was a huge blow. I felt like I was embarrassing him, felt embarrassed by the whole situation and talking about cultural differences: I think I may just be a lot, he is cuddly and tactile but it's not the same as being warm and close. Obviously, it's normal to put distances but then don't grab me, the ambivalence was part of the problem and it always was from day one. He should have put distances from day one and not broken them from himself by DM me , it is how it started and then he just kept on giving on and on. His family and friends following... all the hugs and then some likes , the views, I can count all

I have received and that I have entertained as well and that we in a way both entertained as he could have stopped coming he could have deleted the page ....So yeah thing is it was weird and not satisfying interaction, I felt it like a broken heart and collected the pieces of it back home. I think it wasn't the right time for sure and I should have known but it was so unexpected for him to show up and I had bought those RWC tickets to see him... I don't know maybe

it was all a fever dream as I was alone to experience it when usually someone is there with me to relate the same story with a different point of view...

That was the story of the downfall of my love for Jack.

Cute point it is how close I was to second babey

[ohhalefire]

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🦋 Which character is your favourite to write?

Derek. Derek, Derek, Derek. 🥰 In many ways, I am much more like Stiles, so you'd imagine he'd be easier to write... but nah. Derek's in the kind of emotional pain I enjoy exploring (through art) for fun 😂 😂 And that means I've spent a lot of time trying to understand him, you know? Like the way you study a character in acting. lol to me writing is basically a theatre exercise

❤️ What is your favourite line that you’ve written in a fic?

lol I'm gonna keep answering this one because tbh I like quite a few of my lines 😂 Here's another one from EW(YFIOS) that I like, mostly because the rhythm of this extended sentence brings me joy:

There’s no pain anymore - not when death is so close, is already here, has already come-- Jesus, he’s freaking dead-- --but every atom of his body is screaming against the movement anyway, like his muscles have been replaced with cotton balls and his bones are made of lead.

I'm pretty proud of the internal rhyme in that one, too. 🥰

🎬 If a movie or show were based on your fic, which fic would you choose and who would you fancast?

Omg, definitely ITSOK! There are some OCs in there worth casting - because of course Dylan O'brien and Tyler Hoechlin are involved in the obvious ways, in my fancast 💜 I don't know what any of my co-writers think about this cast, so this just how they were in my own head - no consultation with the rest of the authors has occurred 😂

Ev, the nonbinary waiter who used to work with Derek, has always looked a lot like Theo Germaine to me:

And Collin, Stiles' sweet and magically-educated (if slightly himbo-ish) partner at the FBI, is definitely a bit like Adam Beach?

If we're gonna cast the Vampire Queen, though, even though she's mostly a CGI monster, I've gotta go with the obvious answer, for the power of her voice alone: Cate Blanchett!

Fanfic Writer Ask Game

[here2bbtstrash]

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omg jiya i don't deserve you 😭

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

i mean, i don't think anything tops the OT7 conversation at the beginning of drip lmaooooo. i literally wrote that at like 4 in the morning while CACKLING to myself like a crazy person kjfgslgjdflgkj

i also really love all of the chaos at the beginning of two in one with reader just being incredibly wrong and strong about everything 😂

OH and the ending of don't get murdered is another fave ahahaa. i had to be realistic about it 💀

🍦 What's the sweetest fic you've created so far?

uhhhhh idk it's all porn lmao. but moving day is domestic and pretty cute !!! and i also love the deep connection between reader and jimin in our little secret, like fully knowing each other down to every little sound and movement 🥺

ok but honestly i think this hobi thing i'm drafting now might be the sweetest thing i've ever written ??? everyone went horny mean dom "jay" in this post-hobipalooza fugue and i somehow am.... going fluffy lmao woops 🤪

✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

dirty talk, bc people having sex silently is very boring to read about 😂

🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success?

okay so it's interesting bc jai and i were just talking abt this yesterday !!! i find that if i get too caught up in external validation of a fic (so notes, reviews, reblogs, etc.) it really takes a toll on me. i'm trying to remind myself that i am a creative rather than a content creator- that is, i thrive when i can make my "success" be the pride i have in something i've created, rather than other people's *consumption* of it. if that makes any sense.

so i am really trying to focus on generating my own feelings of success independent of any numbers, by reading over a finished product and going "yeah! this is good! i'm proud of myself!" - easier said than done ofc 😅

💲 Would you ever open commissions?

probably not lol! i earn enough to live comfortably and bringing money into the equation would just stress me out even more than i already am, and i'm too sensi for that shit. plus i'd feel bad taking money when it could be being donated to someone who needs it more. i will gladly keep my porn 100% free !!!

fanfic writer emoji ask game

[morganofthewildfire]

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🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

omg, this is the first thing that came to my mind, but it made me laugh when I was writing Love Left Behind, and I made Rowan sing All Too Well 10 minute version with Aelin 😂 it was very random and very self indulgent, but to this day i still laugh reading it too

🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?

ooh i struggle with action so much, i'm very much more of an emotions writer, so i cannot write a fight scene to save my life 😂 i don't know the write vocab for things and i struggle with coordinating all of the movements

thanks for the ask!!!

[strikerandoverachiever]

Chapter 177 Spoilers

All right, so the spoilers are out and about and they can be found here: https://mobile.twitter.com/rayugax101

Honestly, my reaction to them is tri-fold and also basically just one and the same. You’ll see what I mean..😅😂😂

Ok, so, first of all…

OMG, Chigiri’s parents are watching his match!😆❤️❤️❤️

After this, we’re starting to get Isagi’s analysis, which I expected this chapter:

From what I can tell, he’s thinking about Chigiri’s evolution, how he’s using his speed as bait, creating 2 choices of “inside” or “outside”, using his super speed to cut in and slash; Chigiri’s got the weapons of high-speed centering and control-oriented shot, using his movements to occupy various positions.

Thinking a bit about it… the way he moves now and how he searches for his optimal place to score… it kinda reminds me of Isagi’s playstyle…

And now, of course, we get Chigiri’s own comments:

He’s talking about his “Golden Zone”, how during his training they looked at “successful equations” (?) (I’m guessing his past goals) and they reconstructed his playing style around the “protuding element” (I’m sorry, the translation for this chapter is really escaping me…😅)

“And I have trained just to express that ideal. I have created a body that is very specialized.” (at least this part is clearer)

“Bring your body closer to the ideal you drew… this is the learned Chigiri.” (Isagi may have thought it, but I’m wondering how those words affected Kunigami, seeing as his ideal, for which he trained his body during the Wild Card, was Noel Noa…🤔)

And now here comes Kaiser… and my second reaction to this chapter:

“OMG, Kaiser’s really pissing me off!!!😫😡😫😡😫😡”

He’s talking about how Chigiri’s talented and how he wants to destroy that talent, telling Isagi he’s losing interest in him… and meanwhile, all I can think is “Piss of, Kaiser!!” Dude really gets on my nerves…

As for Isagi, I’m not sure of his lines, I guess he’s thinking about his own ability and how it difers from that of others and how maybe he wants more time..? (Again, I’m really unsure of the translation here)

What follows next… is a surprise… to say the least… and to put it politely… to put it bluntly… I think it’s kind of an insult; meant as one, at least, by its instigator:

KAISER PASSES THE BALL TO ISAGI.

AND I TOOK THAT

PERSONALLY.

To my understanding, Kaiser’s asking Isagi whether he’s reached a stallemate and then telling him “Try it to you liking, shit clown”, before passing him the ball, cuz this stage isn’t exciting enough for his majesty.

And I’ve officially HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH THAT POMPOUS ASS!!!

So here comes my final (big) reaction:

OMG, ISAGI JUST HAS TO SCORE NOW!!!

He just can’t stand for this level of humiliation, right??

So he starts his play with Kurona, as they’ve been practicing, I guess:

I believe Isagi’s thinking that he can’t win alone and he has to play together with the others in this match; now, Kurona is like a support unit for Isagi, I believe. I think he’s decided what he’s gonna do and he’s taunting Reo a bit, saying “Is it annoying?”

Meanwhile, Isagi is thinking he can “look forward and secure the playing field”, in order to create “a great state with an equisite pass”; I wonder, if that is Yoichi Isagi’s “Golden Zone”?

Then, we get this GORGEOUS pages!😆❤️❤️❤️

And finally, the chapter ends on this: ISAGI & KURONA’S CHEMICAL REACTION:

Somebody, anybody, please get in touch with Blue Lock’s author, artist or editor or any other staff member and PLEASE TELL ME THAT ISAGI SCORES A GOAL NEXT CHAPTER!!!

I’M ROOTING FOR HIM!!!

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[starleska]

OH I LOVE THE SONG CHOICE!!! the timing on everything is awesome, esp how you lined up his mouth shapes with the words ??? plus that face at the end LMAO

ahhh thank you so much lovely anon! 😭💖 omg honestly the body movements were really fun to edit but i had so much trouble with Professor Marmalade's mouth!! the awesome animation style means that every mouth movement is hyper-stylised and fits the diction perhaps even better than a real mouth does...i can edit lipsync with decent accuracy even with live action, but hoo, Marmalade gave me a challenge 😂 totally worth it!! sdfgd YEAH i couldn't resist including that face, he looks so distraught;;;

[rahabs]

Omg your tags, when I saw that you only had an opinion on ms M, then thank god you said it wasn't a favourable one 😂😂😂

But I feel you about qeii, it's a complicated moment

It’s a very, very, very unfavourable one. I generally don’t pay attention to current Royal Family politics (I’m aware because it’s my Royal Family too, but I’m not interested as, truthfully, it’s too modern for me), but she’s just so awful I haven’t been able to avoid it.

And yeah, it’s very complicated. I understand why some people dislike the monarchy, but also as a member of a people directly affected by past imperialistic/colonialist actions (love those residential schools and my whole maternal line being dead /s), it still makes me really uncomfortable how mean-spirited and nasty people are being about it. I understand some people’s knee-jerk hatred but also it feels like a lot of white knighting and an even bigger group of people glomming onto the “I hate the Monarchy” movement to be edgy.

But read the room, also? There are going to be millions of people who are genuinely upset and I don’t think it’s hard to keep your nastiness to yourself for a few short days, especially since I know the people being nasty would generally be the first people to get upset if a celebrity or whatever who they liked died and people cracked jokes about it.

[lee-minhoe]

we need to watch the one the other likes now haha 😂😂 oh yeah I love the entirety of blue hour, I genuinely loop the studio choom bc it makes me so happy, the denim outfits are my favorite. when my mom watched it with she was like “this is the serotonin song” and I was just nodding like “yes it really is” watching the dance break is so much serotonin haha and YES if I had to pick one word for their choreo it’s “energetic” there is so much movement, level changing, etc. that just makes me feel exhausted just watching them haha 😂

OH YES!! the fairy one is so hilarious I’ve never seen any person idol or not be as loud, scary and determined for vengeance as beomgyu was in that episode. 🤣🤣🤣 my favorite part was him yelling “GET OUT OF THE WAY CAMERAMAN YOU’RE GONNA GET HURT” 😂 basically like “I’m not gonna run around you I’m gonna run through you if you don’t move” 😂😂 taehyun was also funny in that one too. omg I haven’t seen the cooking on tho so you know which number that is I’ll have to check it out

omg theres a studio choom version of blue hour?? i gotta watch that!! also that is so cute that your mom shares your kpop interest with you 🥺🥺🥺 did you get her into txt/kpop hehe DOES SHE HAVE A TXT BIAS 👀 if i have a kid in the future im def playin kpop for them around the house lmao like “this is what kpop used to sound like” 😂😂

oh my god everyone was scared of beomgyu in that episode LOL AND HES SO LOUD it’s funny how you can hear other members shouting in the background of to do episodes even when the camera is not focused on them hahahah. my fav beomgyu line was when he offered everyone cash to catch yeonjun for him 😂😂 i love how they interact with the camera staff though it’s so cute 🥺 you probably get so much cardio being a txt camera person lmaoooo

the cooking one is ep 78! it’s a three part one (so eps 76-78), i only watched 77-78 and 78 specifically is the one with soogyu cooking together (with taehyun giving instructions). i dont think u necessarily have to watch the other two eps to understand whats going on though! this was a funny part of beomgyu in that episode hahaha

[munsons-maiden]

Ummmmmn can we get another hair braiding drabble i am begging!!! Maybe reader or loki is sick, or upset and crying so the other braids their hair and it ends with a kiss

Omg YES ♡ I could write whole essays about Loki’s hair so here you go, nonnie! Thanks for the request and I hope you enjoy! 😁🖤 (it started out as a drabble but escalated into a whole oneshot 😂)

𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫

𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 |  Loki x gender neutral reader (no hair type/colour is given apart from that the reader's hair is long enough to be braided) 

𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 |  see above 

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 |  You calm Loki after a nightmare, which turns into a hair-braiding session.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 |  a little bit of angst in the beginning and then only lots of fluff 

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 |  1.6 k 

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 |  a little bit of angst in the beginning and then only lots of fluff  

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐤𝐢 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 ♡  

𝐀𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝🖤 

You were roused from your sleep by a quiet whimper, and for a few heartbeats as your mind untangled from Morpheus’ gentle grasp, you thought you’d just dreamed it – until it sounded through the bedroom once more, and you realized it was Loki, crying in his sleep beside you. Your heart bled for him as you shuffled closer. Silver moonlight spilled through the open window to tint the room in its pale glow, painting shadows over the sharp lines of Loki’s handsome face. The look of serenity and innocence he usually held in his sleep was gone, his eyes squeezed shut as tears streamed down his cheeks, leaving glittering tracks on his pale skin before dripping into the tousled dark strands of his hair which spilled all around his head like a dark crown.

“Loki,” you said softly, leaning on one elbow while you gently cupped his face with your free hand, and his eyes flew open with a sharp gasp, his chest rapidly rising and falling.

“Sssshh, it’s okay,” you murmured, letting your hand travel up the side of his face to brush a few stray strands of hair away which had been plastered to the sheen of sweat on his forehead, and you could feel the tug of affection in your chest as he instinctively leaned into your touch.

“I killed her,” he whispered on a half-sob. “I killed her.”

You could feel a lump forming in your throat as you watched the fresh tears running down his cheeks, the expression on his lovely face contorted with a pain sharper than any physical injury could cause.

You didn’t need to ask who he was talking about, who he was still mourning in his sleep. He’d told you how his mother had died. That he was the reason she was dead. It was the same nightmare haunting him in his sleep, the same horrid dream which woke him every so often.

“You didn’t know she would be there, Loki.”

“It doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t bring her back. It doesn’t make me less responsible.”

You wanted nothing more than to take the pain from his heart and make it your own instead, to dry his tears and soothe the grief still burrowed in his soul, and it broke your heart every time to know that you couldn’t.

“Come here,” you commanded softly, sitting up, with your back resting against the headboard of the bed, and patted your lap. Loki complied, shuffling closer until the back of his head was resting on your thighs, and he glanced up at you with tears glistening in his beautiful eyes, the blue of his irises painted a silverish hue by the moonlight.

Gently threading your fingers through the glossy black strands of his hair, smoothing them out around his head with slow movements, you asked, “Will you tell me about your mother?”

A sad smile ghosted over his lips, and with his eyes fluttering close at the calming sensation of your fingers playing with his hair, he began to murmur, “When I was little, I hated my hair. People always used to say that Thor’s hair was like sunlight spun into gold. Just like Odin’s, and Frigga’s. And my hair was black like pitch. I never felt like I belong, and my hair was another constant reminder that there was something different with me. One day, I asked my mother if she could show me how to change its colour with magic. To make it look like Thor’s golden hair. I remember her face when I spoke the question. She smiled at me and said ‘Your hair is beautiful as it is. Just as beautiful as Thor’s.’”

Loki paused, chuckling half-heartedly. “I insisted that she only said it because she was my mother, that my hair was ugly and I wanted it to look like Thor’s, and I will never forget her reply. She told me, ‘If you spend your time trying to be like your brother, you will lose yourself in the process. And even if you think it doesn’t matter, it matters to me. Your hair is beautiful, and it belongs to you. You’re my little raven.’ She always called me her little raven after that day.”

You were having a hard time suppressing the tears stinging your eyes, and your hands briefly left their place in Loki’s hair to tenderly swipe away his own tears which were still running down the sides of his face.

“She was right,” you breathed, “Your hair is beautiful. So much more beautiful than Thor’s. And I’m glad you never changed it.”

Loki gave you a wistful smile, brimming with affection. “My mother would have loved you. I know she would have.”

There were a few beats of easy silence, before Loki murmured, “I love it when you play with my hair. I’ve never let anyone touch my hair because it’s so…” He drifted off, searching for the right words, before he finished, “Intimate.”

You smiled, gently running your hands through his soft curls once more, watching how the dark strands threaded around your fingers, before you began to braid them, watching as Loki’s eyes fluttered close while he relished your touch, the sensation of you playing with his hair. His expression was calm once more, the lines of worry and grief smoothed out by your tender touches. The two of you had been together for a while now, and still you couldn’t help but marvel at his beauty, stealing your breath just like it had the first time you’d laid eyes on him.  

“I can feel you staring,” he mused, eyes still closed and the ghost of his usual mischievous smirk playing on his lips, “But go on. Admire me. Worship me.”

“Just when I thought how lovely and peaceful you looked,” you quipped with a smirk of your own, continuing to weave his silky raven strands into a little braid to resemble a crown adorning his head.

“Done!”, you chirped with a little grin, and Loki raised his hand in the air, a small mirror appearing in his grip in a flash of green, and he raised his eyebrows at the sight of his reflection.

“What in the Nine Realms is that?”, he asked.

“A braid.”

“It looks as if a bird has built it,” he snickered. “A very drunk bird.”

“I never said it was a pretty braid.”

Loki sat up, and now you couldn’t suppress your own little giggle. It really resembled a bird’s nest.

“You would be the worst handmaiden,” Loki commented.

“As if your braiding skills were any better than mine, you spoiled prince.”

He only chuckled mischievously, sitting beside you and patting the mattress between his legs in a silent request.

“What do you want to do?”

He smirked. “I’ll show you how a pretty braid looks like.”

You snorted, but shuffled to sit between his legs, and Loki gathered your hair before he began to carefully part it into strands. A contented sigh spilled from your lips at the sensation of Loki’s gentle hands combing through your hair.

“I didn’t know you could be this competitive when it came to hair-styling skills,” your teased softly, drawing a low laugh from him, before he replied tenderly, “I didn’t think love would come in the form of a braiding contest in the middle of the night, but I’m being proven wrong. Just as you will be about my braiding skills in a few minutes, my love.”

You just hummed in reply, relishing the feeling of Loki braiding your hair, the calmness flooding your soul at the loving touches. You didn’t know how long the two of you stayed like this, lost in the sensation, the gentle tugging at your hair, his fingers threading through the strands, until Loki chimed up, “Ha!”, startling you out of this peaceful drowsiness which had settled over you.

In a flash of green, the little mirror appeared once more, and Loki gleefully held it in front of you so you could see your reflection. Your mouth fell open at the sight.

“Oh goodness,” you breathed. He hadn’t just woven your hair into a simple braid, but into an intricate hairdo making you look like some mystical fairy creature stepped straight out of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Loki flashed you a triumphant grin in the mirror’s reflection, before he planted the softest of kisses on your exposed shoulder.

“I told you I could braid.”

“But…how?”

He closed his fist, and the mirror disappeared once more. You shifted, turning so you were facing him, and Loki explained, “Using magic, seidr, is all about weaving loose strands of magic into something else. A little bit like braiding. Learning to braid helps to guide your focus – weaving magic is a lot harder than that, but braiding hair is a good start to get a feeling for it.”

You could sense the wisps of sadness creeping into his heart once more at the memory, so your hands settled on his cheeks in a soothing gesture before you rested your forehead against his and whispered, “You know that from now on, you will always have to braid my hair, do you?”

Loki gave you a smile in return, filled with so much love that it made your heart sing, before he breathed, “Until the end of time, if you let me.”

With this, he leaned in to lock his lips on yours, a kiss so soft and sweet, filled with love and devotion and a gentleness Loki would never have thought himself capable of before he met you.

His mind flitted back to the words his mother had told him that day when he’d begged her to teach him how to change the colour of his hair with magic, to the words he had omitted in his story.

The parts you don’t like about yourself now will be the parts somebody will fall in love with one day. And they will teach you how to love these parts of you as much as they do.

♡ 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫  𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝/𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠  (𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐞  𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭)

♡ 𝐊𝐨-𝐅𝐢  

𝐋𝐨𝐤𝐢 𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 (𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝) 🖤:  

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[wonwoosthetic]

minnie lets go! seventeen episode please

This one is so long omg, why do they have to talk so much😫😂 but here you go☺️

EP. 5 Let's Go! SEVENTEEN #1 🌷 Minnie

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Requests, taglist, and asks are open! :)

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Italics is what couldn't be seen on camera

Minnie and Woozi stood in the middle, microphones in their hands and the members on either side of them, as the camera started filming them.

The two introduced the new Going Seventeen episode, "1 second makes all the difference! Let's Go!" and the rest joined them, chanting, "Seventeen!"

"Very well done, everyone," the girl looked around, complementing the guys.

"Yes, you've come so far in the morning and listened so well to us," the other MC for the episode continued. Before they could continue, Hoshi and DK raised the positive energy in the room,

"No, no,"

"We need to follow the hosts well."

"You guys remember 'Boo Seungkwan's Past Life Destiny', right?" Woozi ignored the overly hyper men, making the female next to him chuckle.

The mentioned member walked out of the line they had created and raised his voice, "Exciting Saturday, Flaming Night!" Jun was quick to shoo him back as soon as he noticed that his younger brother interrupted Minnie, who was getting ready to continue the speech, earning a laugh from her.

"Well, that MC got fired," Woozi turned to his co-MC that quickly put the mic up to her lips, "So we've been newly employed after they noticed that it might actually take two people to host a show like this." The rest of the guys started clapping their hands, shouting words of excitement and approval into the large gym, taking some of the girl's nervousness but not all of them. Minnie loved talking, she really did. But she prefered doing it in the comfort of her own home and not necessarily hosting two episodes of their Variety Show... but, what Carats want, Carats get.

Jeonghan put an arm around Joshua's shoulder and turned to the two moderators, "There was one more person that was fired. The host of 'Carnival'."

The youngest '97 Liner's eyes met the youngest '95 Liner's, and she started laughing, seeing the emotionless smile he gave them.

"Actually," she started, keeping her gaze on him, "They wanted two episodes of 'Carnival', but they couldn't. Just another example that one host-", but she quickly got interrupted by the man she had been looking at, as he attacked her with a hand covering her mouth and an arm thrown around her, trying to get her to shut up.

Woozi didn't let this stop him from proceeding, "Anyways, this is the second content of the old entertainment shows series. It's 'Let's Go Seventeen'," the members nodding along, "You guys need to run around a lot today." After the last statement, Minnie looked up to Jun, who was standing next to her, smiling brightly at him as she already knew, from their drive to the location, he wasn't too excited about it, but she felt the same way about it. He wrapped his left arm around her shoulder, squeezing it to give her some assurance while they kept on listening to the other '96 Liner.

Everyone got requested to start warming up. Dino asked for someone to guide them and show them what to do - that's when Minghao started doing weird leg movements, challenging the others to do the same. He got pushed forward to stand in front of all of them and began with the official warm-up,

"Okay! Five, six, seven, eight," and all 13 tried to copy his actions. Suddenly, he changed the exercise and started walking backwards on all fours, which most of the others just ignored and chose to rather look at him wide-eyed, amazed by his abilities.

"Ready, right?" He asked into the round, to which some just who had done the exercises carefully just nodded.

Neither one of the MCs was about to start talking again, so the Maknae took it into his own hands, "Actually, I really feel very excited doing the 'Let's Go! Dream Team' because-", "It's 'Let's Go! Seventeen'," Seungkwan reminded him. "I feel very excited doing 'Let's Go! Seventeen' because it is my speciality," the youngest finished his speech when the hosts erupted in laughter, "You guys know how good I am with using my body."

"I don't know!" Wonwoo threw the words at him, making everyone laugh.

Woozi motioned for Minnie to continue the introduction, "So, you guys see this obstacle course?" She turned around to take another look herself as her members shouted, "Yes!", "We need to race through these obstacles, so-,", "How much did it cost?" The leader suddenly questioned, earning him a look of confusion from the girl.

"It seems it cost a lot," her co-host answered.

"So there are no prices for winning," she finished explaining, looking to her right. Joshua pointed a finger at her, "But I heard there was a prize."

"What if," Jeonghan started proposing, making the hosts roll their eyes, "the MVP can make a wish."

"Oh, so just one MVP?" the male MC wondered, turning his attention to the producers, "How about giving the MVP a wish coupon?" Minnie chuckled once she saw the producers looking at each other, not expecting to be put into a situation like this. Jun rested his head on her shoulder, already tired from standing for too long, having to listen to the others negotiating.

Without much convincing needed, the production crew quickly agreed on the proposal, letting them continue filming. But Seventeen's Loki didn't seem to be satisfied with that just yet,

"Or three wish coupons for the MVP?", "Jeonghan, no! Stop being greedy," Minnie laughed at her older brother after noticing the crew behind the camera didn't know how to make the group happy.

Her comment earned her a salty look from the older one, but he stopped complaining.

Dokyeom, who hadn't been able to catch most of what the right side of the line kept on talking about, asked, "What's the prize?"

"We said it's a wish coupon!" Jeonghan shouted back with a jokingly annoyed tone accompanying his voice. The younger one apologized hastily, explaining that he couldn't hear well.

"The mics don't seem to help," Jun pointed at Minnie's microphone, who in response hit his shoulder with it.

"The microphones," Woozi explained, "are just for decoration." To which the others nodded understandingly with smiles on their faces.

"Sing us a song!" Dino suddenly demanded but got ignored by both MCs. The girl took a step back, letting the other host talk to the members to her right, as she gave the youngest a stern look after he started singing something, clearly not interested in what she and Woozi were saying. The maknae seemed to feel a pair of eyes on him as he turned to his right, meeting the glare of his member that got him to shut up without hesitation. She raised her eyebrows, asking him just by the look on her face, 'Are you done?' that made him freeze in position, everyone chuckling at the sudden change in atmosphere.

One of the producers asked them to continue, so the male host turned back to the camera, "Well, now we have to divide into teams. Let's play a game for that."

"Picking up flags?" Hoshi wondered after noticing the set-up behind them.

"Oh," Woozi looked at him impressed, "You studied this very well."

"That's right," he gave the older member a thumbs up and a cute smile, making Minnie giggle at how proud he seemed to be, "I really wanted to do this." This made her change her facial expression quickly, "Really?", looking at him in shock, not understanding how someone could be this motivated to do sports.

"I hated it the other day because I had to use my head," he explained. Woozi nodded, "Ah, the 'One Million Won' content, I see."

"Okay so, we started very well," Minnie took it into her own hands to make the introduction a bit longer, meeting the producer's eyes who motioned for her to keep going, "Ehm... ", she thought about her next question for another second, "do you want to talk about how we've been these days?"

Seungkwan started clapping and laughing, adoring this side of the girl, "You really are new to MCing."

[Kim Minnie, MC Intern]

Making her lower her head and nod with a sad smile as Jun patted her back, finding amusement in her shyness.

Dino decided to answer, "Well... I just want to say how happy I am about having such a beautiful MC for today,", pointing his hand at Minnie, "I truly think this episode will become-,", but she decided to shut him up with an unimpressed expression, "Aaah, alright, alright, it's okay." The youngest looked at her wide-eyed, genuinely curious about what he did as he only tried to compliment her.

Before they could start a discussion, Jeonghan decided to get in between, "That Minnie looks pretty is true. But do we have rules in this game?" Making the two giggle at each other.

"We have to listen well to what the director says," the MC explained as the girl just got back into her position between Woozi and Jun, "You'll run from the white line to the other." Which Hoshi seemed to see just then.

"It's like a warm-up," Woozi finished his speech, "It's a game to decide the teams, so don't feel pressured."

"Do we have insurance if we get hurt?" S.Coups suddenly wondered.

"You have a lot of questions today," the girl smiled at him as Mingyu whined, "Why do you bring up the insurance? It's just a show."

After a bit more bickering between the members, they got summoned to stand behind the white line that got mentioned before - lining up next to each other, ready to run across the gym hall. The two hosts got a brief explanation of the game before getting released to stand in front of the camera again. While Woozi stood closer to the group, Minnie's place was along the side of the field, where they would eventually sit down once they got eliminated. As soon as the director gave them the cue to start talking again, the male MC got to work,

"The twelve of you, excluding Minnie and me, will run towards the flags. The ones to pick the up flags are safe. The ones who don't pick up the flags are out."

Dokyeom walked out of the line they had created, "Are the losers unable to participate?"

"No, no, it's not that," Minnie motioned, "They'll just encourage the others from here." Jumping down in her place with her hands into fists, raising them.

"You have to talk into the mic," Seungkwan pointed at her.

[Experienced MC teaching the intern]

She quickly realized, chuckling along with the others and put her hands down again, "Right, sorry, " before raising the microphone up to her lips, "You'll then cheer from here." After gathering themselves again, her members nodded, understanding her explanation.

Woozi then quickly started the game, not wanting to waste any more time.

The twelve men laid down onto their stomachs, facing the other way and waited for the male MC to give them the 'Go' to start running. He decided to tease them, extending "Get Seeeeeeeeet," before eventually shouting, "Go!" and the members turned around swiftly and began running to the flags on the other side - Vernon decided against it and just started jogging casually, unbothered by losing.

Dokyeom's sudden screams made Minnie laugh out loud, and once she saw Seungkwan pushing Hoshi down, causing him to fall and lose, she couldn't hold herself up anymore and fell down to her knees.

"Hey, Boo Seungkwan!" he pointed at him, "What was that?"

"Why? Why? Why?" Jeonghan smiled sheepishly. The female MC got up and walked over to the '96 Liner who had thrown himself onto the floor, sulking about the unfair move. As he tried explaining himself, defending what he did and blaming Seungkwan for his loss, she linked her arm with his and started dragging him to where she had been standing before, gathering Vernon along the way by putting her arm around his.

"Don't get angry. It's okay," she spoke into the mic, not being able to take him completely serious as he kept on whining.

Hoshi, Vernon, and Mingyu sat down while Seungkwan and her decided to stand, watching the next round closely.

The members started running again, but this time Jeonghan was the one to hold back the ones beside him - the victims being Dino and Joshua. The maknae stepped back, already knowing he wouldn't be able to catch up on the others, whereas the other one seemed unbothered by it and just continued trying to finish the race, which he did and was even able to get a hold of the flag before Wonwoo could.

"Yoon Jeonghan!" Minnie scolded him as he played innocent.

"Wait," Dino spoke up, but Seungkwan interrupted him, "Oh, that's enough. Stop complaining about getting pushed around."

"You're one to talk," the girl scuffed at him, earning a stern look which she copied to mock him. Suddenly, she felt something being placed into her hand, making her hold onto it before it could drop to the floor. Looking down, she saw one of the blue flags that she was now holding, and after turning to her left, she noticed Wonwoo had walked past her to sit down next to the other members who had already gotten eliminated but not before sending her a quick smile. The small gesture made her grin as her grip around the wooden stick got tighter.

She got back into her MC role after the other members that got eliminated, sat down in front of her, "You know, this content is intended to promote Seventeen's union-", "You mean promotion of anger," the oldest '98 Liner provoked her, to which he shut him up by covering his face with the flag, "Union." She held onto the mic tightly before continuing, "You shouldn't promote your anger," and nodded, "So let's go on to the final round, okay?" The rest cheered as she finished her speech, waving the flag, and started encouraging DK who was shocked by how far he had come himself. She decided to stand back but quickly got pulled to the front by Seungkwan - reminding her of their role as the cheerleaders of Seventeen. He was about to hand her one of the flags he had been holding when he noticed one in her hand, "Oh, you already have one?" She put the microphone down and nodded, "Yeah, Wonwoo gave me one." The corners of his mouth curled up, and he started blinking really fast, trying to give her a cute look, "Oooooh." But it only made her hit him with the wooden stick, careful not to break it while having to hide another smile that crept on her lips.

After taking a look around, she found another flag to take so that both of them would hold onto two to use as props, and she neglected the mic, placing it somewhere on the floor. Getting ready for Woozi to start the final round of the game, the two of them started bopping up and down while waving the flags around.

Dokyeom's action of pulling S.Coups back, letting Joshua and Minghao win, made the members on the side laugh and the leader sulk.

"Come on, that's not fair," he started walking up to the two MCs who had also gotten the role as the referees but got held back by Hoshi.

The '97 Liner tried to defend himself, "It seemed like you and I couldn't win anyways," but Cheol didn't believe a word he said, "No! I was going to pick one up!"

The two hosts decided to stand back and let the other two deal with the situation themselves. In the meantime, Minnie had gotten back to stand next to Woozi, having put the flag back to where they were before. Both of them were standing behind the members again, ready to give them the next instructions. He turned to the girl, wanting her to continue, but he quickly noticed that she wasn't holding onto her microphone,

"Where's your mic?" She looked down at her hands, "Oh," and started looking around before her eyes settled on Seungkwan who was holding it out to her, looking unimpressed with her work as an MC. Smiling sheepishly at him, she rushed over and quickly took it out of his hands before placing herself next to Woozi again, who had already begun talking again,

"You two are the winners," earning a round of applause from the rest, "These two now have the power to choose their team members."

After a round of Rock, Paper, Scissors that the Chinese member had won, he chose Jeonghan to join his team. Joshua followed by selecting S.Coups, dragging him to stand next to him.

"These two older guys are good at sports," Dokyeom commented.

"Yeah, but how well do you think old men will do in an obstacle course," Minnie looked at the two teams with squinted eyes. Seungcheol was quick to react, "Hey! What are you talking about, huh?" Approaching the younger girl with quicky steps, as she back up giggling, trying to hide behind Seungkwan, who just pushed her back in front of him. Woozi stopped Coups from getting any closer by continuing,

"The brain vs. competitiveness", pointing to each of the teams.

"I'm so pumped right now," Hoshi expressed his excitement as Minnie stood behind him and placed a hand on his shoulder, laughing at his comment.

"Really?!" Minghao approached him with the same enthusiasm,

"I'm on fire!" The tiger responded. But the '97 Liner changed his direction shortly before Hoshi, "Mingyu, let's go!" To which the girl hugged her member, trying to comfort him while not being able to hold back the laughter escaping her mouth, "You just have to keep on burning, alright?" She spoke into the mic, not leaving her place behind him.

Joshua was next and walked up to him with an extended hand, about to grab Hoshi's when he suddenly turned to his right,

"Wonwoo!!" And reached for the other '96 Liner. Minnie looked at the 25-year-old in shock at how much he had started becoming like Jeonghan... She stood up, shaking her head and whispered into her microphone, "I'm sorry, Hoshi."

As it was Minghao's turn again, she had already given up trying to comfort the tiger and just decided to stay back and enjoy the show as Dokyeom got picked next after asking Hoshi repeatedly, how motivated and excited he was. It was getting so hard to hold herself together, watching her members going at each other.

Next, Joshua's team chose Dino, passing Seungkwan and Hoshi, who both thought they'd get picked. At this point, Minnie had thrown herself around Seungkwan, not being able to hold herself composed with what was going on.

"You guys...," she couldn't even speak into the microphone properly, making the guys laugh as they watched her trying to get herself together to MC properly again.

Finally, Hoshi got picked by Minghao even though he made it seem like Seungkwan would be the one, who then just sulked with the girl on his arm. They watched the '96 Liner get overhyped along with his team, assuring them of his abilities,

"I'm a tiger! I will kill them!"

Minnie turned around, placing a hand on her forehead, trying to breathe normally again, "Oh my god."

"Are you okay, Minnie?" Woozi wondered, speaking into the mic. She looked back to the front, fixing her hair and wiped away some of the tears that threatened to leave her eyes, "Yes, I just... anyways!" She smiled before standing back on both of her feet, as composed as she could be.

Seungkwan started looking around, especially focusing on the guys that were sitting next to him, Jun and Vernon, "Hey, am I really with these guys?" And just seeing the laugh that Jun had on his face made her unstable again, wrapping her arms back around the sulking member as he tried to push her off.

"Seungkwan! If we pick you," S.Coups pointed at him, "You better win," almost scolding him for his antics.

"But you picked me last! I don't want this!" He shouted back.

"You're not last. Hey, don't pick him." Minnie's head just switched between the two members. But Joshua didn't listen to the leader and decided to pick him anyways.

"Okay!" The girl spoke up, "The remaining members are Junhui and Vernon!" And Minghao didn't hesitate to drag the fellow Chinese member into his team, leaving the American-Korean to go to Joshua's team.

As both teams settled, Woozi explained the further steps, "And last but not least. We," he pointed to Minnie and himself, "Get to choose which team we want to join." Before he could continue, Dokyeom took the word,

"Well, MCs, which team do you think looks stronger?" Even though it was not how the decision was supposed to happen, each of them looked around when a member of each team suddenly started showing their strengths.

"Hoshi and Woozi, we are here now!" Hoshi started chanting, not noticing the look on the girl's face.

"Hey! Who tried to comfort you because you didn't get chosen!" She scolded him, to which he quickly stopped and bowed, "Ah yeah, right, sorry."

Dino suddenly got into a push-up position, "Minnie! Let's do it together! I'll show you!" Making her laugh and cover her mouth as she found the Maknae's antics way too cute. The team was about to continue, showing Minnie how much they wanted her on the team when they got interrupted by the probably least sane person of the group doing some weird leg movements with his arms up in the air, "Jihoonaaaa!" The entire group looked at him either confused as hell or laughing their asses off, not knowing how to properly react. Not even letting anyone say another word, Minghao's team quickly joined in on the fun and copied their member's action, trying to get Woozi to join their team.

Not wanting to get involved with whatever they had going on, Minnie turned to Joshua's team with an unimpressed look on her face. Dino was the first to answer her, "Say the name, Seventeen!" and literally just did the group's greeting. The girl closed her eyes, placing her fingers to her temple, thinking about what the hell did she do to end up here. She couldn't do anything else but to look at the guys in front of her doing the greeting over and over again, so she just turned her attention back to Woozi.

"Thank you for showing us so much love guys-", "One, two, three," Seungkwan interrupted him, making all heads turn to him. Once the last word left his lips, the six members of the team all shouted in unison, "Jwiahae!" Copying Minnie's version of the 'Horanghae' that had started it all, and even doing the heart she would usually show with it. The girl started giggling and blushed slightly, covering her mouth quickly while shaking her head. The opposing team didn't let that stop them as they started chanting for Woozi again with the weird move Hoshi had created.

"Let's choose quickly," Dokyeom smiled at the MCs.

"You really think we still have to choose?" She looked at him with wide eyes and a smile, making the guys around her laugh, "You really think so?"

While the male host kept on playing along, pretending to choose a team, the female heard faint whispers from her left that kept on saying, "Jwiahae." She chuckled and turned, only to come to sight with all of the guys from Joshua's team sending her hearts and Seungkwan slowly getting closer to her, not stopping repeating the word.

"How about we play Rock, Paper, Scissors?" Woozi suddenly proposed. She shook her head with a chuckle, "Sure," and shrugged whereas the '98 Liner next to her just stood still, perplexed at the sudden idea, but he didn't leave her side. Seungkwan started the game, "If you don't play, you lose! Rock, paper, scissors!" Minnie went for scissors, and Woozi decided on rock, therefore winning this game.

Minghao's team erupted in loud cheers as they already knew the MC would join their team, but Joshua's was quick to react and immediately did the same, running up to her to engulf her in a group hug after Seungkwan had already embraced her tightly.

"But look, she didn't even win Rock, Paper, Scissors. How is she going to win this?" Seungcheol jokingly asked the others, earning him a slap on the arm from the girl, "Hey! What does that have to do with anything!" She sulked, "And that's the reason I was chosen as an MC. I'm not fast! I didn't know I would have to run today," defending herself to only get a giggle from Coups and a comforting hand on her back that belonged to Wonwoo. "I'm not fast," she silently stated, looking up at him, only for the guy next to her to hear. A deep chuckle left his lips as his hand kept on drawing circles on her back, "It's okay. Vernon isn't either."

The mentioned member turned around to look at the girl and shrugged, "Yeah, probably," seemingly unfazed by it, making her laugh.

The next step was to choose a name for the team. Forming somewhat of a circle, they put their heads together, trying to come up with one. Seungkwan suggested one and started lifting up his leg slightly, "Carnival...", but stopped after receiving, "Maybe I shouldn't have chosen him," as a comment from S.Coups. He didn't shut up completely though as he presented his next idea, "Carnival, you're always in the same place," making the members quickly agree as if it was the best idea he had ever had.

In Seventeen fashion, the teams started bickering about who should go first to reveal their given name and, thankfully, Woozi resolved it by requesting another game of Rock, Paper, Scissors between each leader, which Minghao won, making the other team have to go first. Once Joshua was surrounded by his team members, they started their chant, pointing to nowhere specifically with their hands, "Carnival, You're Always In The Same Place!"

Hoshi obviously had to start another round of provocation as he approached the team, "Oh, I can't hear you? What do they say?" Letting Seungkwan show the same side of him, "What are you saying?! How much louder do I have to speak?" When they unexpectedly bumped their chest softly, making the MCs chuckle as they were standing right next to them.

"If you can't hear us, clean your ears!" Wonwoo shouted at them, Joshua joining him.

The bickering went on as Hoshi and Seungkwan approached each other again, provoking the other by saying random things and pulling faces.

"Okay. All good, but don't fight here," Seungcheol tried calming them down, letting the group continue with their content.

"Let us tell you our name," DK spoke up before their leader started counting, "Five, six, seven," and they started imitating Hoshi's "Jihoonaa" chant from before, copying his leg and arm-work as well. Dino and Vernon started booing loudly when Joshua spoke up, "We should have called our team Minnie-ah," but the girl was quick to answer, "No, you shouldn't," making her team chuckle, "That is embarrassing."

After mocking their chant, the second round of Hoshi and Seungkwan's fight started, not letting the MCs continue.

"Okay, okay, okay," Minnie got in between them, extending her arms to either side, trying to get them to walk back to their teams, which they thankfully did.

"We're going to compete with these two teams," Woozi explained, "We'll change into our team clothes and come back."

They were just about to leave when the tiger of the group had another great idea, "Should we jump?"

"A jump?" some members wondered.

"Well, since we're doing an old show, let's jump," the male host decided. On top of that, the other MC got an idea, "We'll say, 'Let's Go!' And then 'Seventeen' altogether, and then jump!" and imitated said action and her members agreed. All of them got ready, and once the last word was shouted into the gym hall, all of them jumped.

In the next scene, they were all wearing their team's designated colour, Joshua's in purple and Minghao's in light blue. Dino was about to start a skit, asking how they got changed, but Seungkwan was quick to shut him up, to which the other members reminded them of being on the same team meant no fighting with each other.

When Woozi went to question the oldest '98 Liner on his choice of hat he was wearing, he didn't let the opportunity pass to start another round of picking a fight with Hoshi, which Minnie was quick to stop by starting her job as an MC again,

"Okay! The first competition is individual." To which Seungkwan looked at her impressed and quietly said, "Now, she's suddenly doing a good job," but the camera and microphone he was wearing caught him.

[Learned from the best]

"So, choose two people from each team. They're going to race through this, one person at a time. And they will compete for the best record," she finished and joined her team again, placing herself next to Seungkwan.

"Shua," S.Coups suggested right away, "I want to compete when I can annoy the other team."

"But then you can annoy them right from the start," Minnie proposed, making him question whether or not he should start off the competition.

"But," Seungkwan started, "we can all agree that Minnie isn't running, right?" Making all of the other members nod in agreement without hesitation and her chuckle, "Thanks, guys."

After more contemplating, they finally decided on two final contestants for the first round, so the two MCs went back to their place in front of the camera.

"Okay, seems like we're all done, let's start with 'Like The Carnival, You're Always In The Same Place'," she spoke, not waiting for anyone else to say something, but the others agreed.

Dino was chosen to announce the members, "From our team! S.Coups and Wonwoo!"

"Ah, you chose the fast people," Woozi commented.

"Well, obviously," Minnie simply stated before her co-host continued, "Then, Team Jihoonah's participants," he pointed to his team as they exclaimed in unison, "The 8 and Mingyu!"

The two MCs finished introducing the contestants and showed the others the second floor on which the ones, not competing, would be waiting and cheering on the ones racing through the obstacle course.

The teams split up and left the two chosen participants on the ground floor as they made their way up the stairs. Minnie jogged over to where the directors had told her to wait, which was at the end of the obstacle course, while Woozi stayed at the beginning of it, both of them ready for interviews with each contestant.

"A few words before you start," Jihoon demanded from them, getting replies from Mingyu, Minghao, S.Coups, and Wonwoo:

"I'll do my best,"

"I'll leave it to destiny,"

"10 seconds faster than the first place," and

"It's not to beat others. I will consider it as a competition with myself, and I'll run as fast as I can."

Once the purple team started cheering their members on, Minnie joined them from her position on the ground floor,

"Wonwoo! Coups! Wonwoo! Coups!"

As the '96 Liner got ready at the start line, pushing up the sleeves of his sweater and fixing his glasses, Woozi explained the rules one more time.

"Those up on the second floor, are you ready?" he asked, getting loud chants of "Yes!" and "Woooo"s in return.

"Is there a button or something at the end?" Mingyu wondered, but as he was too far away, Minnie didn't catch his question, so the male MC repeated it, talking into the microphone, which caught the girl's attention. She jogged over to the end and reached for the blue flag before raising it up in the air, "There's a flag you have to grab!" This time, she used the mic without having to get reminded of it, "The time stops once you have it in your hands. If you finish the course but forget to grab it, the time will time continue running, so be careful!"

[Intern promoted to Pro MC]

"Wow, Minnie's getting really well at MCing," Seungkwan complimented her.

[Someone's getting jealous]

The girl looked ahead to the start once she heard Woozi's voice saying, "Ready..." and she fixated her eyes on Wonwoo, "Get set. Go!"

Her gaze followed his moving body, all across the course as the cheering from her team became louder and louder, some of them surprised at how fast he was. He reached the finish line quicker than expected and forward, catching the flag on the way.

Along with her team, she started clapping and approached him with the microphone in her hands. One look at the board told her his time, "Wonwoo's record is 46.02 seconds," she let everyone know, letting the claps and cheers become loud again.

"Woow," she started her interview, "Fast from the beginning, how do you feel now?" and placed the mic to his mouth for him to answer,

"This is much more tiring than I thought," he sounded exhausted but still steady with his voice.

"Oh, okay, okay. Thank you for your words," she placed a hand on his back, guiding him, "You can go upstairs and rest now."

While the other host continued running the show, Minnie put her microphone down, "Is it really that hard?"

Wonwoo nodded, breathing heavily, "I didn't think it would be like that. I don't know if you can do it."

"Wow, thanks," she chuckled saltily, pushing him to go forward, making him chuckle, "Stop, I'm just saying," holding onto her arm, "If I'm already tired, you really think you're gonna do better?"

"Maybe," she crossed her arms, raising her eyebrows.

"Alright, we'll see," he smiled lovingly, patted her arm and made his way back to the start after handing her the flag. She placed it back to where it was supposed to be right as the next member, Minghao, started running.

He practically flew across the first obstacles and lost his shoes somewhere in the middle of the course, but it didn't hold him back from being the fastest to reach the end.

"Ooooh," Minnie began, "that was quick," she approached him as he got off the inflatable, "Are you tired?" And extended her arm with the microphone. She waited for an answer, looking at him closely, as he breathed heavily. "Yes," he managed to get out before the girl sent him off again, "You look tired, go and rest," she chuckled, "And don't forget your shoes, Cinderella." Making the members laugh at the given nickname.

Looking up at the board, everyone waited for his time to be announced.

"Wow, 36.05 seconds!" She exclaimed, "Wonwoo was already fast, but Minghao topped that and is now number one!" One quick look to the start line made her giggle, "Let's see if S.Coups can be even faster! I doubt it, but we'll see..."

"Hey!" He shouted, "We're on the same team, you should cheer me on!" But Minnie couldn't hear him as he was too far away, looking at him with scrunched eyebrows.

"He said you're on the same team, so you should cheer on him," Woozi repeated.

"Aah," she nodded, "I will, I promise. I believe in you... kinda," she raised a fist in the air and whispered the last word so that only the camera could catch it. The sudden voice of Dino singing the leader's part of 'Back It Up' through the speakers made her laugh and look at him with wide eyes.

And after a brief description, given by Woozi, the oldest of them was finally able to start his take on the course. The shouts and grunts from the members on the second floor made her step back to take a look at where Seungcheol was. Once she came to sight with his struggle, she started chuckling and cheering, "Let's go, old man!!" But it didn't seem to help much. As he was near the end, Coups decided to take a short rest on one of the obstacles, "Hey!" the girl shouted at him, "Don't lay down now! Come on!"

Minnie climbed on top of the course, standing right at the end and started slapping her thighs like you'd normally do when trying to get a kid or an animal to come closer, "Come on! You can do it!"

As soon as he held onto the flag, she got closer to him, who was now laying on his back, towering over him, while speaking into the mic, "I told you you might be too old." Which earned her a soft punch on her leg as he was too tired to put more energy into it.

Like the producers had told her before the start of the shoot, she got back down and stood on the floor, in front of the inflatable course, waiting for her leader to join her, "Come here, you need to give an interview," she waved her arms to motion at him to come closer.

"Please explain just how tired you are now," she demanded before handing him over the microphone.

"I'd rather go work out for two hours instead," and passed it back to the girl, who had a shocked expression on her face,

"Oh okay, it must be really tiring then," she continued as she got his results, "One minute and eleven seconds... I told you, age matters."

"Minnie, if you don't shut up," he threatened her jokingly as he passed her, still trying to catch his breath, making her smile sheepishly, "But you still did well, don't worry. Let's see how Mingyu will do." Were her last encouraging words before the attention was back to the start, where her fellow '97 Liner was tying his shoelaces.

Minnie heard the words "Kim Terminator" coming from Woozi, making her laugh out loud, "Kim Terminator?" and look at the member getting ready as he posed for the cameras.

He started after getting the okay from the male MC and sprinted across the obstacle course with a good start.

The girl laughed once he got close to the end but fell face forward and didn't move for a second but decided to just hang there for a bit.

"Oooh, let's goo!" She exclaimed once he reached for the flag and was laid down, similar to the contestant from before.

"So, how does the Kim Terminator feel now?" She teased him, approaching him, sitting down next to his lying body, and placing the mic in front of his mouth. As an answer, he just gave a deep breath, and Minnie thanked him with a nod, "Great, alright. So, those were his words, thank you for that." Making the others chuckle,

"You're such a great MC, Minnie! Keeping it short and simple!" DK complimented her loud enough for her to hear. She turned to look at him and gave him a thumbs up with a big smile, "Thank youuu!"

Her team leader chuckled, "Cute."

"And the Kim Terminator's record iiiisss...," she extended the tension, "54 seconds! Placing him third!"

The female host repeated all four scores one more time and finished the first round officially, "So, Team Jihoonah has 4 points, and Team Like The Carnival," she shorted the name, "get 2 points!" Sounding way too excited even though her group was losing for now.

The two MCs got back to stand next to each other in the middle of the big gym as Woozi asked each team to send out two contestants that would now run against one member of the other team. The decisions fell quickly, and soon they came to sight with Hoshi and Seungkwan, that would firstly run against each other side by side, walking down the stairs.

Both seemed to be ready for the next round.

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[kingkatsuki]

okay so i had a thought as i was scrolling through tiktok, idk if you’ve done this or it’s been done before but if it has please point me in a direction bc omg i’m needy.

SO, bakugou comes to you before you’re going out somewhere fancy for dinner, telling you he has a surprise. and he hands you a little bullet vibe, one of the ones with a remote. he tells you to put it in before you leave. you’re hesitant at first, scared of embarrassing yourself, but as you’re getting dress you slip it in before pulling on your panties.

and he’s so mean with it, turning it up a little higher when you need to talk, smirking as he watches you stumble over your words. by the end of the night he has you cumming repeatedly in your seat across from him (and in the car), and you really need to throw out these panties now.~

This was so funny to receive cause I literally had this Kiri thirst sitting in my drafts 😂

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Bakugou promises that he won’t be mean, that you’ll enjoy it. That it’s just a bit of fun and you should relax. But your first mistake is believing any word that comes out of his mouth, he’s insatiable.

Asking to borrow your cell phone for a second when you’re both sitting at the fancy table in the restaurant. Your drinks just arrived at the table as he takes the phone from you, setting it to record as he points it directly at his other palm holding his phone. Showing the app that controls the bullet vibe currently wedged deep inside your slick walls, giving you a sly smirk before he begins to flick his thumb against the screen. Making the lines of vibration go up and down in quick succession as you let out a breathless gasp, your fingers clinging to the table as the wine in your glass shakes with the sudden movement. Bakugou’s eyes lighting up with glee as he catches the way your lips curl into a pout and your half-lidded eyes flutter as you try to keep your body calm.

“You okay, baby?” He smirks as you glance towards him with blown pupils, the vibrations ceasing as you take the opportunity to pick up your glass, holding it to your lips before he has his thumb against the screen again. Turning the vibrations to max as you jolt in your chair. Swearing at him as you try to kick him under the table, but he dodges it with ease as he lets out a snide laugh.

“Oi, you bein’ such a fuckin’ brat when I’m trying to make you feel good.” He acts like he’s the one doing you a favour when really it’s the biggest ego boost to him to have you so dishevelled in public for him. Determined to catch you coming undone on camera as he keeps your phone angled to your face, pushing the vibrations up as high as they’ll go as he watches you begin to roll your hips. Unable to hold back the climax about to surge through you, your toes curling as you let out a low whine.

“That’s it, slutty girl. Show everyone here how pretty you look when you’re creamin’ for me.” He growls, smirking when you do just that.

[badass-at-fandoming]

HI

Catch up on Part 1 here!

Where we last left our RB2: Secret Lesson heroine, she'd witnessed a breach in the Masquerade. A man who was Very Clearly A Vampire was delicately munch-munch-munching a lady's neck. Dorothy does what I suspect I would do if I found out vampires are real: she faints.

When she wakes, Jay, Theo, and Andrew are debating what to do with her. There's a lot of back-and-forth so let me summarize. The Russell Brothers are elder vampires. Like, Andrew is the "baby" of the family, and he was Embraced in the 1600s. As the years wore on and their powers grew, their connection to humanity lowered to an intolerable degree. They don't recognize humans as "people" anymore, just blood bags and playthings. Part of the problem is they're insanely powerful. It's hard to take humans seriously when one movement of the blood and they fall for your supernatural charisma, or follow any command, or break apart. For the VtM fans in the post, Andrew is most like a Vollgirre Toreador, Theo is most like a Gangrel, and Jay is like a True Brujah with some bonus Dominate.

Their parents, the Duke Edumund Russell and his wife Monica Russell, are understandably worried about them. They convinced their adopted sons to attend a human college so they could interact with others and regain their humanity. Except the Chancellor of the school ordered the brothers to keep apart from the other students. Usually, when the brothers feed, they wipe the human's memory afterwards.

But they don't WANT to erase Dorothy's memory because Dorothy is interesting. She resists their powers! She doesn't turn into a yes woman around them. She told them to fuck off! Being told to fuck off is unbearably attractive. 😂

Dorothy goes home to sleep off all these revelations, except who does she run into but Lars! Today's already been stressful, but a best friend returning from being ghosted is the just the cherry on a shit cake. Lars explains that he ghosted her because Kane was going through something. But. Um. I'm 99% sure he was busy turning into a werewolf. Dorothy makes it to her dorm room and face-plants into her bed, hahaha.

While Dorothy is asleep, she has a wet dream about Andrew. I'm not saying Andrew used Auspex to give her that dream, but he definitely used Auspex to give her that dream. Dorothy also finds him holding onto her fifth story window sill by his fingers, which is a little suspicious, haha.

Dorothy lets him in because what else are you going to do. After she left, the brothers told the Chancellor and their parents about the Masquerade breach and their wish to let Dorothy keep her memories. Now, Andrew explains, Dorothy could leave the fate of her brain to the Chancellor's arbitration...OR she could use this super cool loophole. Vampires' partners are allowed to know of their supernatural status, no matter the partners' species. So Dorothy and Andrew should fake date!!!

Dorothy is like...okay, this is insane, right? This is insane. She tries to let Andrew down gently and mentions that if she hadn't had such a horrible first impression of him, maybe things would be different. Andrew seizes onto this excuse and takes it very literally. He uses some Koldunic sorcery to transport him and Dorothy to another country that's across the international date line. So, technically(!!!) he met her hours before their first meeting. Omg, dude. 😂😂😂

But they have a really cute daaaaate. He takes her out for breakfast. Dorothy is majoring in Psychology and he's majoring in Fashion. As a human, he was an Italian painter and best friends with Artemisia Gentileschi. Ya know, the one who made this killer painting of Judith slaying Holofernes:

[[Image ID "Judith Slaying Holofernes" by Artemisia Gentileschi, painted between 1620-1621. The painting depicts the climax of the Bible story of Judith. After gaining access to the Assyrian general Holofernes' tent, the beautiful Jewish widow Judith and her loyal handmaiden decapitate him, which forces the would-be conquerors to leave Israel. Artemisisa depicts the bloody decapitation, using herself as a model for Judith and her rapist as a model for Holofernes]]

Eventually, the couple return to school, and Andrew is very eager for Dorothy to say she'll be his girlfriend. Dorothy point-blank asks why he's so adamant about this. They just met! Andrew confesses to the incredibly unsexy reason that he bet his brothers it would only take him 24 hours to make Dorothy his partner.

Unsexy!!! Dorothy storms off to find Lars and, hopefully, a sympathetic ear. He's on the school sportsball team, and she finds him in the gym...except she walks in on him planning a date with Eliza! WTF, LARS. Andrew comes running up, and before we can think thinky thoughts, Dorothy lays one on him. Andrew later describes it as a "tongue punch" and offers Dorothy kissing lessons asdfghjkladkfa. Lars and Eliza see and go "ew" because they are weak little babies about PDA. And that's how Dorothy starts fake-dating a vampire lol.

A few days pass. Andrew asks Dorothy to meet him at the Chancellor's office, so they can make their case that Dorothy should keep her memory. Andrew looks a little pale(r) than usual, but he distracts her with kisses. Sidenote: Andrew is the best kisser. After kissy kiss, the pair meet Theo, Jay, and Chancellor Dmitri inside. Theo says vampires and humans shouldn't romance one another. Jay argues that Dorothy should be allowed to keep her memory because she's interesting in a scientific sense. He wants to study her, haha. Nerd. Andrew cites the loophole, saying he and Dorothy are dating. Theo gives him a side-eye. 😒

Dorothy has other plans. She rips the Russell brothers a new one. They're a mess! They're disrespectful! They're impulsive! One made me orgasm in class, one forced me to time travel, and the last won't look me in the eye because I'm not "worth his time." They are the WORST and that's why I should be the one to beat some manners into their brains.

The Russell brothers are in awe of Dorothy's declarations. No one has (verbally) kicked their ass in a century. Chancellor Dmitri is equally impressed. He assigns Dorothy to be their therapist. adfgjkhl;l;kdjfasj W H A T

Dorothy protests that she's only 20! She hasn't even finished one semester of her psych major. But Chancellor Dmitri insists, and the brothers insist, so Dorothy has little choice. Andrew is so happy he swoons like a Victorian maiden, and Theo has to walk Dorothy home.

On the walk home, Dorothy asks Theo why he wears his meanie pants all the time, which gives him an opening to unleash his Tragic Backstory. In the 1500s, he was in the Spanish Navy. One day he returned home from a long voyage to learn his entire family had been slaughtered by werewolves. Like, when he left he had a wife, children, in-laws, parents, and grandparents. When he came home, he had no one. Theo swore vengeance, found a vampire to Embrace him, and killed a shit ton of Spanish werewolves. Once his vengeance was complete though, he sank into a depression that he's never really gotten out of.

Dorothy is like "Thank you for that shockingly dark update. See you tomorrow." 😂 Theo is like "what," and both he and I discover that Dorothy's first lesson plan is to bring this depressed old man to an amusement park. Theo is very skeptical, haha. But! Through the sheer power of being outside and roller coaster discombobulation, they have fun! Btw, going outside, walking, and riding roller coasters can ease depression symptoms. Nothing like launching yourself at speeds high enough to leave orbit to get that serotonin flowing.

At the end of the day, there is one ride left: the ferris wheel. I didn't realize ferris wheels were a romantic trope, but they must be. They keep popping up in these romance games. Usually I ride them so I try to find our car in the parking lot lol. Unlike my ace ass, Dorothy is not immune to the charms of the ferris wheel. And Theo is so Sad and has an Animal Magnetism and oh no the cabin shifted and our lips fell together! For 20 minutes they fell and couldn't get up.

[[Image ID Royal Blood 2: Secret Lesson, Theo Russell CG 1, Dorothy falls into Theo's lab while they ride a ferris wheel, and a surprised Theo catches her. Theo has short brown hair and green eyes. He wears a striped blue button-up shirt and basic black slacks, while Dorothy wears a white blouse and indigo skirt with a lighter flower pattern. The couple look surprised and in wonder, presumably because they just kissed]]

As soon as the ride is over, Dorothy and Theo's brains are full of question marks; swiftly followed by guilt. This element frustrates me. The player cannot avoid becoming Andrew's girlfriend, and their fake-dating contract always contains a clause to be exclusive, unless both parties agree to a non-monogamy situation. The player can choose to not kiss Theo, but Dorothy still feels immense guilt for the "crime" of thinking Theo is attractive. This thought crime guilt doesn't sit well with her character. Yes, she's only 20, but she's otherwise a very mature, old-soul 20 year old. She's certainly far more mature and sensible than the men around her. The narrative holds together if Theo and Dorothy really do cheat/kiss, but it feels forced and inorganic if the player chooses to remain faithful.

It's an example of the narrative vs otome game mechanics fight I talked about in the first post. Somewhere in the game's development process, it was decided that a cheater/loyal variable would take resources better spent elsewhere. Better to force the plot point that Dorothy feels guilty for cheating. It's one less thing to code and discourages players from feeling locked in to Andrew's romance, which otome players don't like.

Or I'm totally wrong. Maybe the author just wanted to include the infidelity trope in Theo's romance, and the moment just lands awkward.

Regardless, the scene changes. Mean Girl Eliza doubts that Andrew and Dorothy are really dating. The only solution is for Andrew to speedily appear and kiss Dorothy in the most obnoxious and public way possible. All over campus. Repeatedly.

Embarrassed by so many good kisses, Dorothy is like i NEED to LEAVE and declares she'll have her therapy session with Jay today. 😂 She asks Jay to take her somewhere he feels comfortable. Jay gets it into his head that for Dorothy to be comfortable and/or fall for him, he should take her somewhere she feels comfortable. Dorothy likes Andrew. That must mean Dorothy likes places Andrew likes. So he takes her to a jazz bar at like 6pm on a Tuesday asdfghjkl; Dorothy smells a rat, and is like "Jay...I've known for like 2 weeks and I know this isn't you."

Jay is low-key like "babe, take me now," because it is SEXY to FIGURE OUT PLANS. Even sexier is when Dorothy explains that she wants to get to know Jay, not Jay-cosplaying-as-Andrew. Jay has to buffer like a computer, hahaha. Eventually, he leads her to his "secret hideout," which is a little-used reading room at the college:

[[Image ID, Royal Blood 2: Secret Lesson, Jay Russell CG 1, Jay and Dorothy sit on the floor a reading room. Bashful, they face each other close enough to boop foreheads. Jay cradles Dorothy's hand to his cheek. He has blue eyes and blond hair with hints of a dark-brown undercut. He wears an overlarge, dark blue sweater over his jeans and white T-shirt, while she wears dull orange jeans and a blue, purple, white, and orange striped T-shirt.]]

These dudes... Can you believe this is only Episode 6.

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